Crawford avalanche., 1887-04-14
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

-Carsonville's new weekly paper is
called the Saturday Morning Tribune.
The East Saginaw gun club will attend
the State shoot to be held at South Lyons
April 40 to %, inclusive.
Mr.. Campbell will remove his saw mill
from Posen TO Rogers City, where he has
some 600, 900 feet Of white pine logs to saw.
Matthew Ryan, of East Saginaw, has
challenged M. ]. Dunn, of Detroit, to a
horseshoeing match for a purse of from
500 to $4,000.
About forty Hollanders have just ar
rived in Kalamazoo, fresh from their native
heath. They will assist Celeryville in get
ting out the esculent.
Several Hudson young ladies hold
stock in the Gardner Fuel and Light Com
pany," and Hudson may have several heir
esses in the near future.
Charles Starkweather's saloon and
Capt. William Pierce's house adjoining, at
West Bay City, were destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Loss, $4,000.
-Kalamazoo's numerous bicyclists begin
to smile as warm weather approaches.
Kalamazoo is almost as much Of a wheel
ing city as the West Virginia metropolis.
-Menominee Baptists have purchased a
81 400 lot and will build an $4,000 or
$4,000 church on it this summer. The
church will be of brick with stone foun-
dation.
The residence of F. J. Moore, at Lam
sing. was badly damaged by fire one night
last week. Most of the furniture was saved.
Loss about $1,000; covered by insurance.
Cause of fire unknown.
John Stonehouse, resident of Esca-
naba, hanged himself in an outbuildinp,
where he was found late in the evening
Derangement caused by drink, he having
been drinking heavily for week past, is
the reason.
The editor of the Maple Rapids Dis
patch gets out of it as follows: w. E.
Warner, editor of the Dispatch, is sick
with the measles, and any mistakes that
may occur can be laid to A. J. Moss and
E. F. Bell.
The Michigan Exchange Hotel, AZ
Cheboygan, has been sold to Captain Chas.
E. Kirkland, the well-known lake wrecker,
for $4,000. The Captain will superintend
the management himself, and has aban-
doned the wrecking business temporarily,
William Jones, young man employed
at the Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Iron
Mine, one mile outside Ishpeming, fell
down hundred-foot shaft, breaking both
legs and sustaining fatal injuries other
wise. A brother was killed in precisely 9,
similar way two years ago.
Frank Whitaker, miner at the LAX,
Superior Hematite, was killed by fall o:
ground recently. He has wife and three
children in England, who were to leave
there for Ishpeming in few days. Whit
taker was about 35 years of age, and was
sober and industrious man.
Markham Briggs, of Plymouth, was
cross-cutting wood and hung the saw on
the limb of tree while he turned his at
tention to something else. The saw fell
and the teeth cut into his neck, nearly Sow
ering the jugular vein. The wound bled
profusely, and the prompt arrival of ply
sician prevented serious results.
John Miller, a convict at Jackson, sent
from Lenawee County April 5, 1874, for
twenty years for murder in the second de-
gree, died at the prison hospital recently
of pneumonia. Thomas Leslie, received
at the prison from Detroit on six years
sentence for burglary Dec. 10, 1885, died
in the hospital last W eek of consumption.
The jackson Prison report for tho
month of March is as follows: Number of
conyicts in prison March 1. 500; received
during the month, 20; discharged during
the month, Is; deaths, 2; transferred to tho
Ionia asylum for insane convicts, /; con-
victs in prison at close OF month, S04 To-
tai receipts during the month from visitors,
$103.65.
Lawyer @. A. Withey's son Harry, aged
IA, and Rev. ]. N. Stark's son Roy were
skating on the Hersey River at Reed City.
when Harry broke through the ice near the
shore and was drowned. He had been in
the water forty minutes, and life was ex-
tinct when the body was recovered. Roy
made an heroic effort to save his drowning
by taking off his coat and
reaching it TO him, but the ice was so weak
that it broke, and he narrowly escaped
drowning.
What will be known as the Peoples
Mutual Building and Loan Association of
Saginaw County is now being organized in
The Saginaws, with headquarters in East
Saginaw, with a capital of $5,OOO,OOO.
Linton and twelve others
ire the incorporators. The stock will be
n the market for sale in 500 shares within
en- days. 1t is expected it will help work.
ngmen and small capitalists, giving an
opportunity of purchasing homes, etc.
The international railroad bridge to be
,uilt at Sault Ste. Marie aero the st.
dary's River will consist Of three sections:
first the dravbridge, with conter pier and
wo abutments, superstructure 396 feet
ong; second, the bridge over the main
hannel Of the river, nine piers and two
butments; ten spans of superstructure $50
eet to center of pier; third. the bridge
orth of st. Marys Island, one pier, two